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Anonymous wrote:People don't seem to realize that opening an AAP center at Cooper would crowd Cooper overnight, leaving more kids in trailers, etc since they don't have the capacity. The school is pretty run down as is and there are no plans for any new renovations anytime soon. Plus, it would take time for Cooper to reach Longfellow in terms of AAP rigor and extracurricular since they currently don't have those teachers in place.

I know certain school board members are chomping at the bit for this to happen, but they shouldn't just force it willy nilly and hope for the best.

FCPS shows Cooper as having being under-enrolled by 327 students this year, with the enrollment declining for at least the next four years.

If the choice is between moving AAP kids back to Cooper, or reassigning neighborhoods from Kilmer and Longfellow to Cooper to fill empty seats at Cooper, I'd prefer the former, since allowing the AAP enrollments at Kilmer and Longfellow to grow further as a percentage of the total enrollment would only aggravate issues that already exist around AAP/GenEd dynamics.

The parents at Cooper don't want a center there either, so the reason you cite above is pretty ridiculous. Having a center at a school that isn't equipped to have one is pretty stupid-plus, I don't know where you come up with those numbers of under enrollment. Both Churchill road and Spring Hill which feed to Cooper have tons of kids, as well as all of the Great Falls schools also in Langley pyramid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People don't seem to realize that opening an AAP center at Cooper would crowd Cooper overnight, leaving more kids in trailers, etc since they don't have the capacity. The school is pretty run down as is and there are no plans for any new renovations anytime soon. Plus, it would take time for Cooper to reach Longfellow in terms of AAP rigor and extracurricular since they currently don't have those teachers in place.

I know certain school board members are chomping at the bit for this to happen, but they shouldn't just force it willy nilly and hope for the best.

FCPS shows Cooper as having being under-enrolled by 327 students this year, with the enrollment declining for at least the next four years.

If the choice is between moving AAP kids back to Cooper, or reassigning neighborhoods from Kilmer and Longfellow to Cooper to fill empty seats at Cooper, I'd prefer the former, since allowing the AAP enrollments at Kilmer and Longfellow to grow further as a percentage of the total enrollment would only aggravate issues that already exist around AAP/GenEd dynamics.

Anonymous wrote:People don't seem to realize that opening an AAP center at Cooper would crowd Cooper overnight, leaving more kids in trailers, etc since they don't have the capacity. The school is pretty run down as is and there are no plans for any new renovations anytime soon. Plus, it would take time for Cooper to reach Longfellow in terms of AAP rigor and extracurricular since they currently don't have those teachers in place.

I know certain school board members are chomping at the bit for this to happen, but they shouldn't just force it willy nilly and hope for the best.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The way to address the over cowding at Longfellow and relieve some of Kilmer, is to have Cooper be an AAP Center School. Cooper is under capacity and is projected to go lower. Opening Centers at Thoreau and [i] Cooper would relieve some of the over crowding at Kilmer.

If that is not enough, they can have Franklin- Sherman stop being a split feeder and have all the students go to Cooper and Langley.

If that is not enough, they can shave off some of Chesterbrook to give to Franklin-Sherman and then Cooper/Langley.

Cooper absolutely does not need to become yet another AAP center. There needs to be at least one (if not more) middle school in the area that doesn't divide the students into two falsely labeled groups. Perhaps AAP should be vastly reduced so that the overcrowding in center schools is no longer a problem.

Tell that to the Longfellow Gen Ed community, how you want to luff off YOUR AAP on them. Or will you allow all the Longfellow Gen Ed students to go to Cooper?

Absolutely, the Longfellow Gen Ed kids would be welcome at Cooper! I'm talking about keeping at least one middle school FREE of AAP. Why is that so hard to understand? Why must everything revolve around the AAP kids?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The way to address the over cowding at Longfellow and relieve some of Kilmer, is to have Cooper be an AAP Center School. Cooper is under capacity and is projected to go lower. Opening Centers at Thoreau and [i] Cooper would relieve some of the over crowding at Kilmer.

If that is not enough, they can have Franklin- Sherman stop being a split feeder and have all the students go to Cooper and Langley.

If that is not enough, they can shave off some of Chesterbrook to give to Franklin-Sherman and then Cooper/Langley.

Cooper absolutely does not need to become yet another AAP center. There needs to be at least one (if not more) middle school in the area that doesn't divide the students into two falsely labeled groups. Perhaps AAP should be vastly reduced so that the overcrowding in center schools is no longer a problem.

Tell that to the Longfellow Gen Ed community, how you want to luff off YOUR AAP on them. Or will you allow all the Longfellow Gen Ed students to go to Cooper?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know details about the overcrowding plans for Longfellow? All that I have heard is that the changes will not occur until the 2015-2016 school year. Does anyone know more specifics?

Longfellow's capacity was expanded when it was recently renovated. Kilmer and Jackson are facing greater overcrowding in a few years than Longfellow. FCPS can open an AAP center at Cooper if it needs to address overcrowding at Longfellow and Kilmer.

Longfellow is the only MS on the need-to-address-overcrowding list.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The way to address the over cowding at Longfellow and relieve some of Kilmer, is to have Cooper be an AAP Center School. Cooper is under capacity and is projected to go lower. Opening Centers at Thoreau and [i] Cooper would relieve some of the over crowding at Kilmer.

If that is not enough, they can have Franklin- Sherman stop being a split feeder and have all the students go to Cooper and Langley.

If that is not enough, they can shave off some of Chesterbrook to give to Franklin-Sherman and then Cooper/Langley.

Cooper absolutely does not need to become yet another AAP center. There needs to be at least one (if not more) middle school in the area that doesn't divide the students into two falsely labeled groups. Perhaps AAP should be vastly reduced so that the overcrowding in center schools is no longer a problem.

Anonymous wrote:The way to address the over cowding at Longfellow and relieve some of Kilmer, is to have Cooper be an AAP Center School. Cooper is under capacity and is projected to go lower. Opening Centers at Thoreau and [i] Cooper would relieve some of the over crowding at Kilmer.

If that is not enough, they can have Franklin- Sherman stop being a split feeder and have all the students go to Cooper and Langley.

If that is not enough, they can shave off some of Chesterbrook to give to Franklin-Sherman and then Cooper/Langley.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know details about the overcrowding plans for Longfellow? All that I have heard is that the changes will not occur until the 2015-2016 school year. Does anyone know more specifics?

Longfellow's capacity was expanded when it was recently renovated. Kilmer and Jackson are facing greater overcrowding in a few years than Longfellow. FCPS can open an AAP center at Cooper if it needs to address overcrowding at Longfellow and Kilmer.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know details about the overcrowding plans for Longfellow? All that I have heard is that the changes will not occur until the 2015-2016 school year. Does anyone know more specifics?